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1862 and gold
In 1862, the Campana collection added gold jewelry and maiolicas, mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries.
The gold rush of 1862 brought miners and stock raisers to the mountains and grasslands of Umatilla County.
After gold was discovered in 1862 on Whiskey Flat, it has been estimated that within ten days 1, 000 miners were camped along Canyon Creek.
Canyon City hosts an annual summer festival called "' 62 Days " ( referencing the local gold discovery in 1862 ) to celebrate its history and residents.
With the discovery of gold near Canyon City in June 1862, and near Granite in July 1862, gold miners streamed into the area.
In 1862, the rest of Umpqua county was absorbed into Douglas County, some say due to the loss of population following the end of the early gold boom, while others attribute the absorption to politics.
Prospectors and miners moved through the county in 1862 in route to the gold rush in the Boise Basin around Idaho City, and by the next year irrigation began along the Payette River.
An 1862 gold strike on the Colorado River near present-day Yuma inspired hardy American prospectors and miners, to search for minerals throughout central Arizona.
Idaho City was founded in December 1862 as " Bannock " ( sometimes given as " West Bannock "), amidst the Boise Basin gold rush during the Civil War, the largest since the California gold rush a dozen years earlier.
White American explorers discovered gold at the site on July 2, 1862, and later that year United States Army Captain Jason L. Fisk brought a mule train from Minnesota which stopped at the site and built the first houses that became Montana City.
Canyon City was established in June 1862 as a result of the discovery of gold in Canyon Creek, which flows through the town.
First established by miners after the discovery of gold July 4, 1862, the community was originally called Independence and was situated about a mile-and-half west-north-west of the present location.
The first European Americans came to the Shaniko area after the discovery of gold in Canyon City, Oregon, in 1862.
Rees established a high country farm in the location of Queenstown's current town centre in 1860, but the discovery of gold in the Arrow River in 1862 encouraged Rees to converted his wool shed into a hotel named the Queen's Arms, now known as Eichardt's.
The discovery of gold in 1862 by a young shepherd, led to several constructions being built in the area.
During the specie suspension from 1862 to 1878 western states used the gold dollar as a unit of account whenever possible and accepted greenbacks at a discount wherever they could.
Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.
An exhibit which he sent to the London Exhibition of 1862 gained a gold medal, and at the Philadelphia Exposition at 1876 great admiration was expressed for a tonometric apparatus of his manufacture.
This resulted in a situation in which the greenback " Legal Tender " notes of 1862 were fiat, and so gold and silver were held and paper circulated at a discount because of Gresham's Law.
A money-strapped Congress which had to pay for the war eventually adopted the Legal Tender Act of 1862, issuing United States Notes backed only by treasury securities, and compelled the people to accept the new notes at a discount ; prices rose except for those who had gold and / or silver coins.

1862 and mining
In 1862 he quit mining at Lookout Mountain Cave and rented the cave to the Confederate Nitre Bureau, which mined the cave from June 1862 through July 1863.
Prairie City grew out of the former mining camp of Dixie, established in the summer of 1862 and was a short distance up Dixie Creek.
Worse still was the devastating effects of the Great Flood of 1862 which swept away the riverside settlements, mining works and ferries.
La Laguna was a mining town that was in existence for a short time from 1860 to 1862.
It was first described in 1826 for an occurrence in the Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and named after its discoverer, German mineralogist and mining geologist, J. K. L. Zincken ( 1790 – 1862 ).
Prospecting and mining in the area first began around 1862, but the remote location and lack of transportation kept activity to a minimum.
The road passes the site of " Eldoradoville ", a mining town with three stores and six saloons that was established in 1859 and washed away in a flood on January 18, 1862.
* Simón Iturri Patiño ( 1862 – 1947 ), mining magnate
After encountering numerous problems, Smith abandoned the level but in 1862 another entrepreneur, the Scottish mining engineer Archibald Hood, leased land at Llwynypia and sank the Llwynypia No. 1 pit in 1863.
The most prominent reminder of Allihies ' mining heritage is the engine house located on the mountain above the village and installed by the noted Cornish engineers Michael Loam and Son in 1862.
His best known work is arguably “ The Hartley Calamity ” about the disastrous mining accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland, England in 1862 in which 220 lives were lost.
The Commission was successful in freeing many women taken as captives during the Larut Wars ( 1862 – 73 ), getting stockades dismantled and getting the tin mining business going again.
This enterprise was based on a theory of mining the Schuylkill Basin coal field promoted by Eli Bowen in his 1862 book, Coal, and the Coal Trade, where he called for " large capital " to sink two " enormously deep and permanent shafts " to a depth of two thousand feet " before a single pound of coal is allowed to be sent to market.
He received a practical and scientific education in mining at Munich and Heidelberg, taking the degree of Ph. D. at Munich in 1862 ; and he was engaged for a time at the colliery of St Ingbert and as a surveyor in that district.
They moved to Idaho in 1862 for mining.
In 1862, García Moreno created a tax on mining in order to benefit Zaruma municipality.
Cambois was a coal mining village from 1862 to week ending 20 April 1968 when Cambois Colliery closed.

1862 and took
Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.
On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.
After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.
Brutal Peruvian slave traders, known as blackbirders, took a terrible toll on the islands of the Northern Group in 1862 and 1863.
1862 — Peruvian slave traders took a terrible toll on the islands of Penrhyn, Rakahanga and Pukapuka in 1862 and 1863.
* 1862 – The largest mass-hanging in U. S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
In 1862 he took orders.
** The Battle of Harpers Ferry ( September 12 – 15, 1862 ), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Virginian general Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions into Union territory, ultimately becoming commander of all Confederate forces.
The massive Confederate attack on the morning of April 6, 1862, took most of the senior Union commanders by surprise.
With renewed confidence Ingres now took up and completed one of his most charming productions, The Source, a figure for which he had painted the torso in 1823 ; when it was seen with other works in London in 1862, admiration for his works was renewed, and he was given the title of senator by the imperial government.
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign took an amphibious approach, landing his Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula in the spring of 1862 and coming within of Richmond before being turned back by Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days Battles.
With the merging of the Army of the Shenandoah, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston took command from July 20, 1861, until May 31, 1862.
On June 1, 1862, its most famous and final leader, General Robert E. Lee, took command after Johnston was wounded, and Smith suffered what may have been a nervous breakdown, at the Battle of Seven Pines.
* Malcolm Webster Ford ( 1862 – 1902 ), champion amateur athlete and journalist ; brother of Paul, he took his own life after slaying his brother.
After Union forces took over the island in 1862, slaves migrated there for relative freedom, as they were considered contraband by the military, who would not return them to the Confederates.
The Battle of Roanoke Island ( February 7 – 8, 1862 ) was an incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862, when Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island.
On September 8, 1862, a patriotic rally took place in the city, in front of St. Sigismund church.
During the Civil War the Battle of Front Royal took place in the county on May 23, 1862.
During the Civil War the Battle of Cedar Mountain took place on August 9, 1862 and the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863, in Culpeper County.
In 1862, soldiers of Sibley's Brigade took part in the Texas invasion of New Mexico Territory, where they captured several artillery pieces at the Battle of Val Verde.
Prestonsburg was used as a Confederate stronghold during the Civil War and two battles took place nearby: the Battle of Ivy Mountain on November 8, 1861 and the Battle of Middle Creek on January 10, 1862.
Many Baton Rouge residents took refuge in West Baton Rouge Parish during the Union occupation of Baton Rouge in 1862.

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